Education
Evans was born in Llangollen in Denbighshire, North Wales, where his father, Henry, was a saddler. He attended the local county Grammar School, from where he entered the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1931. He then went on to Gonville and Caius College in 1932 where he read law. While at Cambridge, Evans was already an active member of the Liberal Party. He became involved in the Cambridge Union Society and was President of the Union in 1934. He was also President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934, which was converted into a Master of Arts in 1939.
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